Wheat Price Guarantee Act

Wheat Price Guarantee Act
Long title	An Act to enable the President to carry out the price guaranties made to producers of wheat of the crops of nineteen hundred and eighteen and nineteen hundred and nineteen and to protect the United States against undue enhancement of its liabilities thereunder.
Nicknames	Wheat Stabilization Act of 1919
Enacted by	the 65th United States Congress
Effective	March 4, 1919
Citations
Public law	Pub.L. 65–348
Statutes at Large	40 Stat. 1348
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as H.R. 15796 by Asbury Francis Lever (D-SC); Passed the House on February 22, 1919 (278-14); Signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on March 4, 1919;

The Wheat Price Guarantee Act was a 1919 bill passed by Congress that gave the government the power to regulate the price of wheat.

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